"You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.“

-Elizabeth Gilbert

posted in Sad

Elizabeth Gilbert quote about Sad: "You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, wh..."

Other Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Discover more inspiring quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

WisdomView Quote

"I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

WeddingView Quote

"I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

WeddingView Quote

"As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

SuccessView Quote

"When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

SuccessView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life."

-Susan Smith

"Our hope, and it's a sad hope, is that... well, I mean we need a tip. That's why we have such a big reward. We just hope that someone is holding her for her child and that we can, you know, get her back with a tip."

-Scott Peterson

"It's really sad that the kids today can only relate to Beethoven via a rock version of his music."

-Walter Murphy

"Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses."

-Robert Williams Buchanan

"Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad."

-Mitch Miller

"It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge."

-Soledad O'Brien